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k."r THE rOTJKNAL. KATES OF AIVEaCTl!-4i:- Oultimtiu ivipat ISSUI 2VEBY WKDNKfeDAY, M. Iv. ' JESTER & CO. . Proprietors and PublUhers. "E3TBuiness and professional card of fivs lines or less, par annum, Cvs dollars. "gff For time advertisements, apply at this office. JSTLesal advertisements at statute rates. JSTFor transient advertising, sea rates on third page. . X3TA11 advertisements payable monthly. t3T0FFICE Eleventh St.. up taira ' in Journal Building. TF.RMS: Per year Six months Three months - - 1 39 5 VOL. XVI.-N0. 18. COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY JULY 22, 1885. WHOLE NO. 793. .Single copies ill -i a i , -.'A I s i- r Iv- fc COLUMBUS STATE BANK! nnr TTW-DTTQ WRB. I CASH CAPITAL.' - $75,000 DIKECTOUS: I.eaNDRK Gerraud, Pres't. GeW. W. Hulst, Vice PrcSt. Julius A. Keed. I. II. Henry. .1. E. Ta.sk Eh, Cashier. UuU f Iepol. IUco-at -& Eichange. CollecltoB Promptly "" all PolBtM. Pay Iaterent m Tltane lepo- itt. 2U HENRY G-ASS, TJISTDERTAJCEIl ! COFFINS AND METALLIC CASES AND DEALKK IN Furniture, Chairs, Bedsteads, Bu- reaus, Tables, Safes. Lounges, Ac. Picture Frames and Mouldings. ZSTBepairtng of all kinds of Upholstery Goods. Ctf COLUMBUS. NEB. HENRY LITERS, DEALER IN WIND MILLS, AND PUMPS. Buckeye Mower, combined, Self Binder, wire or twine. Paaps Repaired on short notice pgOne rtoor -west of Heiutz's Drm Store, 11th Street, Columbu-. Neb. ; THE BEST " boon etvr h.'mved upon man i- perfect health, ami th.-tiv 'a; to in-iire h.-aiih f-to'piirify your li.Ml.w'iJi At-i's Sar-a-parills- Mr-. I'lira A. Cion-li. SI Arliiis- ti.'.i !.. Lj.tvc. :s.. writ-- "Kvery w inter ami sprim: iny family, itit-luilir.!- . myself. u-e several Inittle of Aver- Sar--.ipsrilla. Kxiwrience has euiiiineed me tlrit.a jt,..ittfrftil Stood pnriiitT. i: i- tery iiuuli -iipoir t any o:fi-r." prejiaratiou of Sai-aimrillu. A 51 .er-on- tff srrofulou- or i-ou-umptite t-: lf.'iV. mid especially delicate e!ii!;!r-ii. :re uiv t be greatly bei;ai:l l.y i' u-c" ..I. W. Starr, Lsicouia, Iowa. tt riles : "Tor .oar- 1 wus troubled with -'croii-lou- complaints. I tried several ilifleivnt preparations, which did me little, if am. jmvI. Two bottles of Aver'- S.ir-:ii'.-rilla criVrtrd a complete cure. It i- mt opinion. th? this medicine Is tin l-t blood Purifier i of -the dsjC' C. E. C-h'oii. Na-hua. N. II., wrile: "For a iiumlnr of year- I wa troubled with a hu.i.or in my etc-, siitd unable to obtain ivlief until I emn nieiioed li-hiz . Sarsaparilia. I hate taken several bottles, am irrvatly beiit lited, and lielieve it to ie the b.--t of blond purifier?." It. Harris. Creel t'cy. Kanwy Co., 'Dakota, write: "1 have Iieon an hitru-e sufferer, with Ispe-ia. for the lia-t three year?. Sis mouth ao 1 liezaii tou-r . AYER'S Sarsaparilla It ha effected an entire cure, ami I am now a well a ever. I Sold by all Drujnts. Trice $1 ; Six bottles. $.. Pn-pared by Dr. J. C. Ayer .v. Co., Lowell, 1 M". I s i A WOKD OF WARM. EBMEES, stock raisers, and all other interested parties will do well to remember that the Western Horse and Cattle Insurance Co." of Omiha is the only company doing business in this state that insures' Horses, 3Iules and- Cattle a&ainst loss by theft, accidents, diseases, or injury, (as also against loss by fire and lightning). All representations by agents of ether Companies to the contrary not withstandin?. P. W. HENBICH, Special Ac't, 15-y . Columbus, Neb. LYON&HEALY HmretSts..CUcaie. wnitdmj?tiiyiA ttr MRDCATALWUE, I far ISA CO ftm, IW x(nHi4 MrnUk Jtm -xj, uia Ssirj BuJ Oolta. hiihli( ikutllAHalwnfiMiM f v Amttrcz maat, &sl tfCttfatfcri' li-i-. .SibbbI Stale SBBSl' SMTBxaKA. ir. SAVED FROM THE DRAFT. II ia I'el-r ranj- Managed to Krsp C'Diirriptiou During tlir War. Ihiring th,- darkT days of the war. x 'ifii It- lioliilrn f.-ntur.- --nd given j !:uf to guanine b!nd and universal sorrow when lw dazzling uniforms li. .i be, ! .lr.'grd in the mud ami dut of inativ eaiiijniigns. and the oil of 'i ry Snuiheru St.ule had swallowed up thv dear lu-t of brother- and sons and w!,i.u tin- roll of drum- ami lla-h of vvnd- no ldugor won new recruits to Ifith's grim carnival, there earn. the iltM't, With all tlie honor.-, but none of she d urlv-ljought glory of volunteer M-rv ice. Peter i'ltily. an Iri-h blacksmith, with u yoitn: w.fe ami a 1 re family of help le little cliildn-n. wa- among the first in r-'outhftru Wisconsin to draw a sor owful -". He felt that he absolutely e uld no! go. He tried every wayjo. evade tin call of certain death, but met w th L-otliing but chagrin, ridicule and defeat. One day. Hon. .lames H. Earnest wa p.-iki!ig in the State Senate, when a me eeger came and told him taat a man outside the Senate chamber wished lo -ee Jiim. Owing to some mi-ttndar-itandl'jg, Mr. Dutl'y wa- u-hered into the romiu He had a good deal of hair, which he allowed to rrow in wild pro lusion He did not hold himself rej)oi--iblc in any way for that hair. His head looked like an old hair mattre-s that had leen turned wrong side out by a cyclone and deserted by it-, friends. He became t lie cnoure of all eyes. The -peeeh lo-t it- intere-t and came fo a cloe. Xi. e'eter.'" said Mr. Earnest, "what"- the matter with you?" "Sitiator, I'm kilt, I'm a cold carpse. Me wife i- a widdy Thev do have me grafted. Jim. There's only half a moile bechuuc tne and parodoise. I want you to see th Prissident. or Jill' Davis, or Gineral MiekLillau. or some of them byes and .-ave me loife. If ye can't do it. Jim. I'm a gorn oop, and me wife is a wivpin' widdy bound for "the poor-hou-c b.'vant. Hilj) me ut, Siuator. Pas- a bill making it a lilony on the lioigh a.e to gnift an Irish orphan into t!I gineral ni:t-acree. Do that Jim, and I'll pray fer ye all me loife. and the Lord know you nade it. too, and I'll do all yer lilackgmithin at half proke.' Mr. Earnest thought all those tilings w to impracticable. Tet-r," said he. "you seem to be eleitrd by ,tn overwhelming majority, an. I Tin afraid your resignation would not be accepted. Unless you fail to pas-, the me-Hcal examination you will have to go. I goes-." Then Mr. Dufl'y thought of -ome-th:nr. Mnator. to tell the trooth. I can't liar verv veil meself. Whin I was an appratie a red uioal knocked the ilav 1 iigh'.- out or me and impaired mc listener " Mr Earnest had never noticed thit, but ho reailv didn't want tf see Duffy l. and in the kindness of his heart he encouraged tiie idea a little. He even went over tDeo Dr. Hoyt at Camp Haudall. and while they "made some scientific experiments with lemons and sugar and spirits, he drew the conver sation toward Mr. Duffy. The net day Mr. Earnest told Peter to oiiie down to the Park Hotel and viit him a hi- room. At the appointed hour Senator Earnest produced a lit of le-t:on anil told him he would have to answer the-e sati-factorily. Pa tienth they set to work like a class of student- wiio have secretly -secured a li-t of tjuerie- prior to the day of exam ination. Every day after the legislative -e.iou had closed "Mr. Earnest would repair to his room in company with Mr. Dufly, and they would go through the rehearsalAFinally the time for Dunj's eamination came, and Senator Eartie-t had to go to Camp Randall to a i-t. A question would be propound ed to IVter. -and he would turn with great gravity ami earnetne to Mr. Lamest by him, ami ask: What do you say. Jim?" Then Jim would bawl the que.-tion into Duf-tV- oil e.ir. The examination went on lir-t'ratc, only that Earnest nearly died trying to keep a -traight faca. 1 inally came the lat test, wiiich ;en era'ly caught the inqio ti-r Dr. Hoyt turned with griat iliiu-t to the other ea:n:ning surgeon- and said: etitlenien. we don t want this bump on a log. He ean'i hear any thing. I th'nk wr hadlM'tter leave the blanketv-blank wnoden-head at home, where hi- family-can attend to him nd; -- that he don't mis- the re-urreot'ou. This wa- shid in a low tone of voice to catch the unwary Irishman, but -low'y he timed to Senator niest ami gnie'y inquired: "What do he say, JJm?". Tlien.Earue-t. fed in tjie face With suppre-sed. emotion, vllowetl into Diit'y's.l)est ear: "The doctor says you can't hear anything. He thinks you had better siay here where your family can call your attention to the re-Mirreetion."." BUI -Ve. in Me miry. FACIAL DEVELOPMENT. Souir- of the Clirkjr Itaests Which Come Over tjie Teleplione. A rejorter sto.d in the oflice of a dovn-towu grocer" on Saturday con versing with the proprietor, when the iiidd.'n "B-r-r-r!" of.the. telephone" in lemqited the chaL Uello! What's wanted?" asked the aian of provi-ions. Is this Mr. Blank's store?"' inquired the4erson at tCe other rnd of the line. -Yes- go ahead." This 'is Mrs. . I would like small change (or a live dollar bill, and wish you would send a man over with it. "Vill it be too much trouble?" "Oh. no. I'll send it at once. Good bye." "Well, that's rather cool!'' remarked" the reporter, "auch calls must be profitable-"' We don't mind little things of that kind," replied the grocer, "but I'll give vou an instance of facial development that's worth recording. One rainy nigltf about a' week ago a lady rang mc np, and asked if I would send her a yeaat cake at once. I told-her I would de liver it myself on my way home. I walked -six bloaksf'with that infernal yeast cake in my pocket and delivered it to a servant who responded to my knock on the front door. The next morning I was somewhat astonished when the lady called me up by tele phone and informed me that. the next time any of my men tlelirered goods at her house they wjrp to come to ttie back door. Isn't tnt eM('k to drive a man out of business? TTffl, (j V&J saxnple of the messages that come over that telephone of mine, but as these people. are good customers I ain't t&Ik back to them without losing tasir trads.' Detroit xrce Press. CARPETS AND RUGS. Fine Grade of Kscb Wttlrk Aw Mauufect ured In America. An increased demand for the luxu ries of life indicates the advancement of a community in art, taste and re finement." said an experienced sales man in the carpet and rug department oi a great wholesale nou.se to a re- porter for the Daily Xews. Take carpets and rugs alone, for instance. Ten years ago the stocks of the lead ing jobbing houses in Chicago would not average more than two hundred or two hundred and fifty pieces each. Now they carry from live hundred to seven hundred pieces each of body Brussels and the higher grades. The heaviest trade is in extra -uper-ingrain. and tapestry Brussels comes next. Are the liner grades imported? Well, I should say not. We make better car pets in America than are made any where else in the world., and the same may be said of rugs. Of course you can not include among the latter the rare India and Persian imported rugs. 1 have -een in a well-known house in New York small rugs six by two feet in -i.e worth fifty and sixty dollars, while larger India rugs fifty and one hundred years old. on whijh whole families have worked for a ear or two. and which look like the rare old drapery taken from some picture, are worth fifteen to eighteeu hundred dol lars. There is not much competition in rugs. The leading industries in this country are confined to the manufac ture of tapestry Brussels, body Brus sels, and Smyrna rugs, while there is a large manufacture and importation of velveLs, nioquettes, and puiijaubs. A firm in Halifax. X. S., are the largest manufacturers in the world of velvets and Brussels. The Smyrna and mo quette rugs are the most costly. The Smyrnas are alike on both sides and run to high colors, while most of the others are in patterns of flowers, ani mals, and an infinite variety of de signs. "Some time ago the favorite design in Brussels and velvet rugs was the Jumbo" pattern, while the figures of horses, doirs and stags were placed in many. The Smyrna rug is the most difficult to make aud the costliest: the body Brussels comes next, while the tapestry Brussels is much cheaper. The process of manufacture is difficult to explain. It would require a trip through the manufactories to become acquainted with the details. The tapes try Brussels is printed first and then woven into mats and rugs. The body Brussels patterns are formed on Jac quard looms and cards. The leaves and flowers are formed and cut by ma chinery on the cards, by the same pro cess employed in making carpets. Velvet--, moqucttcs and punjaubs are made on power looms, the same as vel vet carpets. They are woven out of worsted, aud the pile is cut or sheared down. In Smyrna and imitations of imported rugs, the material is woven in colors, and then cut into strips and woven in stripes or broad ground-lig-ures on hand looms. They are -entirely alike on both sides, and are an ex tremely favorite rug. They vary in size from one foot square to twelve or fifteen feet, with borders. Some of the loom- in which these nigs are woven are e'ghteeu feet wide. There are sev eral arieties of cheap and inferior rugs made by individuals, but they do not come into contact or competition with the regular trade. The are made ou much the same plan as the old fashioned rag carpet. It requires es pecial talent and skill to manufacture the different varieties of rugs. Fer in stance, the body Brussels and ingrain carjwts are very nearly alike in process of manufacture, but the maker of these is not capable of making tapestries, in which the pattern is stamped lirsL By the way. the weavers of ingrain two ply carpets in Philadelphia have been on a strike for twenty-one weeks, and this variety of carpets is much higher in the market in consequence." Chi cago yews. TWO GREAT INVENTIONS. The Sleaiu Vtiic and .Power Loom' Frow the Headwork and Handicraft of Boy. The invention of the-valve motion to a steam eng-ne was made by a mere boy. Newcomen's engine, was in a very incomplete condition, from the fact that there was no way to open or close the valves except by means of levers operated by hand. He set up a large engine at one of the mines, and a boy (Humphrey Potter) was hired to work these valve levers. Although this is not hard work, yet it required his constant attention. As he was work ing the levers he saw that parts of the engine moved in the right direction, and at the same time he had to open and close the valves. He procured a strong cord, and made one end fast to the proper part of the engine, and the other end to the valve lever, and the boy had the satis faction of seeing the engine move with perfect regularity of motion. A short time after the foreman came around, aud saw the boyplajing marbles at the door. Looking at the engine, he saw the ingenuitj of the boy. and also the advantage of his invention. The idea suggested by the boy's inventive genius was put in a practical form and made the steam engine an automatic working machine. The power-loom is the invention of a farmer's boy, who Bad never seen or heard of such a thing. He whittled one out with his jack knife, and after he had it all done, with -great enthu siasm he showed it to his father, who at once kicked it to pieces, saying that he would have no boy about him that would spend his time on such foolish things. The boy was sent to a black smith to learn a "trade, and his master took a lively interest in him. He made a loom of what was left of the one his father bad broken up, and showed it to his master. The blacksmith saw that he had no common boy as an appren tice, and that the invention was a val uable one. He had a loom constructed under the supervision of the boy. It worked to their perfect satisfaction, and the blacksmith furnished the means to manufacture the looms, and tho boy raeeived half the profits. In about a yearthe blacksmith wrote to the boy's father that he should bring home with him a wealthy gentleman "who was the inventor of the celebrated power loom. You may be able to judge of the astonishment at the old home when his son was presented to him as the inventor! who. told him that the loom was the same as the model that he had kicked to pieces but a year before. Our Patent Office shows mamy iBge nions and useful inventions made by boys. Boston Budget. " " OF GENERAL INTEREST. The walls of several of the British war ships are constructed of paper. An electric arrangement for regu lating furnaces has been invented by a ' esttield (Maii.) individual. Boiton JFost. ! The production of coal in Belgium I in 18S4 is provisional!-- put at 18.S00,- 000 tons, against an ascertained pro duction of 18,177,754 tons in 1883. Horses have a natural dislike for camels in mass, and can scarcely be induced to charge upon a body of these desert animals, even when the latter are lying down and tied. It is claimed that the stature of race horses has increased an inch every twenty-five years since 1700. The height of horses then was thirteen hands two inches and in 1870 it was fifteen hands two inches. -V. Y. Her ald. At one timejduring the Revolution ary war the currency of the country had so far depreciated that a barrel of flour was worth one thousand, five hundred and seventy-five dollar- and John Adams paid fifteen thousand dol lars for a suit of clothes. Chicago Inter Ocean. Artificial cheese made of one part oleomargarine and two parts skimmed milk, mixed to the coasistency of cream and subjected to the usual pro cesses of manufacturing the genuine article, is the latest edible commodity contributed by Germany to the world". Cincinnati Price Current. Not content with crazy quilts, we are to be inflicted with tra.y cloth dresses. The material is cotton, with an oild mixture of colors and patterns, and is particularly invented for chil dren, as it can not possibly show the dirt so plainly visible, on the white frocks they have been forced for so long a time to wear. Detroit Post. The Bangor (Me.) Commercial re lates that a man in that section lately received several hundred dollars hack pension. He has quite a larv family and had been very poor. Yhe first thing he did after receiving hi- money was to buy a trotting horse, a harness, wagon aud the usual amount of boots, hoods and other horse trappings. The newvst thing which electricity proposes is to steer vessels without any attention on the part of the man at the helm. The needle of an automatic compas-. by opening and closing the circuit, keeps a ship on Ihe course laid down without any intervention. All that is necessary is to set the compass, and the good ship makes a true line for port. S. Y. lir.i'l. The !::''.' ? fiuiing. say- a writer. is this: 'lhe ini.ler has a clear t'.tle against the world, except the owner. The proprietor of a coach, 'or a rail road car. o a -hop has no right to demand the pNjjK-rty found on his premises. S;t -i proprietor may maf.e regulations in regard to lo-t prop.it which will bind the'r emloe.-, but they can noi bind the public. The decrease during the last ten years in the value of fashionable furni ture is a striking economical phenome non. More paint and le-s carving are possibly the chief causes of the change. Sighing swains are informed that the wooden portion of any matrimonial venture they may have in view can now be undertaken with fifty per cent, less cash than would have been necessary inl87A. Current. High chimneys for factories are now becoming unnecessary, by reason of the introduction of a new kind of oven. Any manufacturer, it is as serted, can place one of these ovens in his works and obta'-n from every ton of slack he ue coke worth two dollars, tar and ammonia worth one dollar, and 14.00 feet of "- to generate .-team. The coke.tar and ammonia will U thus, is claimed, considerably morf than pa for slack, wear and tear. eic. -.V. "'. Sun. Prof. J. W. Sanborn. of the Mis souri State Agricultural College, and also Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, estimates the lo-se- of stock in that State during the last winter, from disea-e aud exposure, at not less than four millions of dollars. The principal lo-s by di-eases lias been from cholera in hogs anil from e posure from want of proper -hclter. Loss from disease, he -tates. could generally have been prevented b-. proper attention to diet and from e-po-ure wholly by providiusr suitable shelter. A Litchfield Couuty (Conn.) cor respondent of the Hartford Cournnt. writing of manners and customs in that region fifty ears ago. say that "common people didn't own stoves then: they rented them of the rich for twenty-five cents a month. Dr. Catlin. of Litchfield, had quite a number that he rented. We well remember seeing him staff around for miles to collect stove rent. There were no clocks in school-bouses; the teachers had noon marks on the window-sill: when the. -un struck the mark it was noon: if cloudy they guessed noon. There were clocks in but families in thoe day-." Several marriageable young men of Rochester, N. H.. are in a terrible pickle. They have heretofore given as a reason for not marning that they could not afford the luxury". About a month ago several marriageable young ladies put their heads together and prepared a document proving conclu sively that families of from two to six (they provided for the future, you see) can live well on uTne dollars a week. Having disposed of rents, fuel and pro visions, the-e artless girl- turned their attention to clothing, and the document aforeaid states that the woman who can not dress stylishly and save mouc on -eighty dollars a ear is not worth the marrying. Then these girls made copies of the original and sent one to each of the eligible voung men. Boston Globe. A Nation of Skaters. Holland is the paradise of skaters, its highways being canals that are covered with ice nearly half the year. The It-dies thejre go shopping on skates, boys skate to and from school, older members of the family go to church on skates, the postmau delivers his letters and the doctor visits patients ou them, and Oven the solemn pastor moves on skates when he visits his parishioners. 'Dairymaids skate to town with full pails of milk, of which not a drop is spilled, and farmers' daughters skate to ullages with a full basket of ggs in each hand. During the Spanish inva sion several victories were won by the native soldiers, who, on skates, suddenly moved on the forces of Alva, and as quietly retired to their own camp. For a period of more than fo.ir hundred years the soldiers have been trained to perform evolutions on skates. F.z-ekange. FIRST National Bank ! COLUMBUS. -NEB. Authorized Capital, - - S250.000 Paid In Capital, - 50,000 Snrplns and Profits, - - 8,000 OFnCKRS AXP niRECTORS. A. ANDERSON, Pres't. SAM'I. C. SMITH. Vice Pres't. O.T. ROEN, Cashier. .1. W.EARLY, HERMAN OEHLRICH. W. A. MCALLISTER, O. ANDERSON, 1 ANDERSON. Foreign and Inland Exchange, Passage Tiek-vts. ana Real Estate Loans - 23-vor-lS-lr BUSINESS CAEDS. D.T. MaRTYX, M. D. F. .1. SCHUG, M. D. Drs. MAJRTYN & SCHUG, U. S. Examining Surgeons, Local Sun-eons. Union Pacific, O., N. Jk It. H.and II. ,t M. R. R's. Consultation- in German and Engli-h. Telephones at oflice and residence.1. ISTOfiice over Firt National Hank. rt COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. 42-v C. . KVA.J, "I. !.. PMTSIC1AX AXD SUBGF.OX. JSTOftiee and rooms, Gluck building, 11th street. Telephone communication. Ay F. F. RIWEK, tl. D., HOMCEOPATHIST. Chronic Diseases and Diseases of Children a Specialty. "SErOtliee on Olive street, three doors north of First National Bank. ! ly T-CT JI. COR.ELll'S LAW AXD COLLECTIOX OFFICE. Upstairs Ernst building 11th street. C ,1 GAKLOVT. Collection Att'y. SPECIALTY MADE OF BAD PAPER. Oflice with J. G. Higgins. 3441m TT j. iii;iko:v XO TA BY P UBLIC. 2th Street.: !oors west or lUmmoml House, Columbus, Xel. 491-y r C- KEEIEK, .4 TTOIiXEY A T LA IV, Office on Olive St., Columbus, Nebraska J-tf tio:-fcY XO LOAX. Five vears time, on improved farm with at least one-fourth the acreage under cultivation, in sums representing one third the fair alue of the homestead. Correspondence solicited. Address, M. K.TURNER, ."in--, Columbus, Nebr. V. A. MACKEN, UKA1.KU IN Foreign end Domestic Liquors and Ciia7t. llth -treet. Columbus, Neb. 30-y VfcAl.I.lSTF.R 11ROS., A TTOBXETS A T LA W, Office up-stairs in McAllister's build ing. llth St. W. A. McAllister. Notarv Public. TOH Tl.UOlilV, NOTARY PUBLIC AND CONVEYANCER. Keep.- a full line of stationery and school supplies, and all kind- of legal fonu. Iu-ures against fire, lightning, cyclone and tornadoes. Office in Powell'.- Block, Platte t entci. 19-x .1. M. MACFAKLANO, B. K. COWDKKY, fi,t::--.ijr ssi I'-tuy ?zi,)r : . C:!"-r.:r. LAW AND COLLECTIOX OFFKE -OF MACrARLAND & COWDBHx. Columbus. : : Xebraska. J. J. IAi:C51IA. Justice, Conn ti Surveyor, Xotary, Land and Collection Agent. JSTParj ies desiring surveying done can notifv me bv mail at "Platte Ventre, Neb. fil-Cm Tf H.ftrSC'IIF, llth St., opposite Lindell Hotel. Sells Harness, Saddles, Collar, Whips, Blanket-. Curry Combs, Brushes, trunks, valises. bug::y tops, ou-hion-, carriage trimmings, "te., at the lowest possible prices. Repairs pn mptly attendedjo. TAME SAl.tl, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Plans and estimates supplied for either frame or brick building-. Good work guaranteed. Shop on 13th Street, near St. Paul Lumber Yard. Columbu, Ne braska. r2 Cmo. T II. LAHKE.ME, DEPUTY CO. SUBVEYOB. Will do general surveying in Platte and adjoinine counties. Office with S. C. Smith. COLUMBUS, NFBRASK. 17-tf JS. MURDOUK & SON, Carpenters and Contractors. Havehad an extended experience, and will guarantee satisfaction in work. All kinds of repairins done on short notice. Our motto is," Good work and fair prices. Call and give us an oppor tunitytoestimateforyou. "j"Shop on 13th St., one door west of Friedhof & Co's. store, Columbus. Nelir. 483-v o. c. stt a -jsnsroirsr, MXXCFaCTl'lU'R OF Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware ! Job-Work, Eoofinfi: and Gutter- " ing a Specialty. iSrShop on Olive Street, 2 doors uorth of Brodfeuhrer Jexvelrv Store. 46-y G W. CLAB K LAND AXD 1NSVBAXCE AGENT, HUMPHBEY, XEBB. His lands comprise some fine tracts in the Shelf Creek Valley, and the north ern portion of PI?tte county. Taxes paid for non-residents. Satisfaction cuaracteed. 20 - COAL 4 LIME! J.-E. NORTH & CO.. -DEALERS IN Coal, Lime, Hair, Cement. Bofk Spin Coal, Carbon (Wyoming) Coal... Ehiou (Iowa) Coal ....'... ..7.00 per Ion ... 6.00 - ... 5.00 Blacksmith Coal of best quality al ways on hand at low est prices. North Side Eleventh St, COLUMBUS, NEB. 14-.'fm UNION PACIFIC LAND OFFICE, SAML. C. SMITH, Agt. AND 22ETI have a large number of improved Farms for sale cheap. Also unimproved tannine and grazinir lands, from $i to sjl.l per acre. " "2irSpeeia! attention paid to making final proof on Homestead and Timber Claims. J35" All having lands to sell will tind it to their advantage to leave them in my hand- for sale. Money to loan on farm. F. II. Marty, Clerk, speak German. SO-tf Columbus, Nebraska. LOUIS SCHREIBER, ittiii AH kinds of Repairing done on Short Aotice. Buggies, Waj n r. ons, etc., made to order, and all work Guar anteed. Also sell the world-famous Walter A. Wood Mowers, Reapers. Combin ed Machines, Harvesters, and Self-binders the best made. QTShop opposite the "Tatter.-all," on Olive St.. COLUMBUS. 2B-ni -""i, B. A. FOW-LEIt, ARCHITECT, lil ?i!Xis St., - CUA2A, K2B. PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS FURNISHED for all kindi of Public Buildings and Pri ate Dwellings. Architect of Willanl Bloek, Child's "Hospital, Residence of Hon. .1. M. Thurston, Residence of Hon. John I. Redick, Omaha; Residence of Hon. O. W. E. Don-e, Masonic Hall, Fremont-, Neb; Residence of '. C. Crow ell, Esq., First National Bank, Blair, Neb; Residence of Tho. Brvant, First National Bank, Schuyler, Nih., and ma nv others. -f-T-mt' j'ri presents given away. Send us f cent po-tage, and by mail you will get ' free a pacKage of goods of large value, tnai win siart you in worv mil iu ai once bring you'in money faster than any thing else in America". All about the $200,000 in presents with each box Agents wanted everywhere, of either se of all ages, for all'tbe time, or spare time only, to work for us at their own homes. " Fortunes for all workers ab solutely assured. Don't delay. H. Hai. i.ktt ,tCo., Portland, Maine." NO HUMBUG! But a Grand Success. I P. BRIGII AMS AUTOMATIC WA t terTrough for stock. He refers to every man who has it in Use. Call on or leave orders at George Yale'f, opposite Oehlrich's grocery. K-Urn rpKA3ISIX IIOUME, PLATTE CENTER NEB., JOHS DUCGAS, Proprlttor. The best accommodation for the travel ing publie guaranteed. Fod good, aud plenty of it. Beds clean and comfortable, charges low, as the lowest, lo-y k TT)Tr7T Send six eeuts for A I II. I 1 1 I" i postage.and receive -- - -J.UAU, lreC) 3 costly box ot goods which will help you to more money right away than anything else in this world. All, of either tex, succeed from first hour. The broad read to fortune opens before the workers, absolutely sure. At once address, Tkue &. Co.. Augusta, Maine. 1-QTICE XO TEACHEM. J. E. Iff oncrief, Co. Supt., Will be in his office at the Court House on the third Saturday of each month for the purpose of examining applicants for teacher's certificates, and forthetransactton of any other business pertaining td schools. - 5C7-y H AaiLTO MEADE, tl. D, PHYSICIAN AND SUBGEOX, Platte Center, Nebraska. 9-y 1 General Real BlacKsmitb ana Wagon HaKer AliiL wggppwjpr- $200,000 CESSPOOLS AND WELLS. A DecUIoa ta an KnglUh Caa Wait la Llkrlr to Prorr a FreccdeBt. A rather important case was decided in England the other dav, which is likelv to -erve. as Knirlish cases often do. a a precedent for the guidance of court in this country, and as the cir cumstances which led to the dispute before tho court are very likely to be repeated in country and suburban towns everywhere, those who inhabit; auch places will do well to make a note of the limit which the law seems in clined to put upon their liberties. In the case in question, which is known as Ballard vs. Tomlinson. the defend ant, like so many other people not yet defendant-, utilized, as he supposed.an old well by converting it into a cess pool. As it happened, the subterran ean stream which had supplied the old well also supplied, further dowu ia its course, the well of the plaintiff, who soon found himself drinking the diluted drainage from his neighbor's establish ment, is place of the clear spring water to whicli he was accustomed. In de fault of other means, he betook him self to the law to obtain redress, but was repulsed with the decision that no person could claim property in an un derground stream flowing beneath his land, iti such a way as to prevent per sons further up the stream from drain ing it away, or diverting it. or making such ue of it as they might clioose. This judgment, which certainly seems open to the criticism that it would allow a per son greater liberties with an under ground stream than with one on the surface, did not satisfy the plaintiff, and he took his case to the Court of Appeal, which reversed the previous decision, and laid down what is now the common law of England on the subject, that although the owner of an estate may not be entitled to prevent the owner of an adjoining oue, higher up than his, from draining his land in such a way as to intercept the subter ranean streams which would otherwise reach the territory at a lower level, yet the owner of the" lower tract has the right to demand. ,if the underground streams reach him at all. that they shall come to him unpolluted; and the higher proprietor is not to be permitted to di-pose of noxious matters, even on his own land, iu such a way as to con taminate his neighbor's spring. Ou general grounds, no one could object to so reasonable a decision, but an at tempt to put the law in practice iu some of our suburban towns or seashore settlements, iu which, according to the official report-, the greater part of the wells receive sewage from th- neigh boring cesspool- or vaults, would, we imagine, keep all the lawyers in the place busy for a long time. The sub ject is, however, of o great importance that it would be well worth while for a number of per-ons aggrieved in this way by iuconsiderafn or indifferent neighbors to join in prosecuting to final decision- a .-ingle test case, by means of which the rights of all could be estab lished, and relief secured for each one. American ArcJtilcct. NORWEGIAN NAMES. A Ciutoiu Likely to Make JnUuite Trouble JT" for GenmlugUts. Here at Laerdal a mystery has been unraveled. While waiting e-terday for a primitive ho-niaker to sew up a rent. I -aw that h wanted to talk. I -ei.ed the opportunity to make him tell his grandfather'.- name, his father's, his own, his son's, his grandson's and. in the event, the possible names of his sonssonsson.' I have been driven furious in trying to discover relation ships. Grave-yard', even family grave yards, have given no clew. Now I have it! Suppose a man's name is Frithjcui."' That means he own- a house and farm, the name of which is Krilhjem. Rear in mind, the feudal sstem doesn't- ei-t iu Xorwa. as in Sweden and in u measure all ovi-r Eu rope. Iu f;i'!. the last trace of rank and prerogative of that kind was abol ished iu lSi'l. Laud is not rented to the many by the few. Each man owns his own land iu this thoroughly demo crat'f country: or. rather, more strictly speaking, the land p-se t-s that man for the time ami the farm gives him his name, sat Frithji:i. Now the man's inditidir.il name i- Ole. His child is christened 'Haf. say. The rest of the child's name is. Lot Frithjeru, but "Ole"- -on:" the whole name is Olaf Olesou. 'ihe 'on of this child, if christened Nil. will have lor a whole name Nil Ohifsou. The " or the po---ssi.e geniti.e is sometimes ita"n'd. making the pos sible name of the hitter's son. Ole Nil-son. In this swing ing baek and forth of Ole NiNson and Nil Ole-oii among the apparently uu conneeted soij and grandson" who h.ive no name in common, the name lriihjm i- lo-t sight of except as the nam-.of the farm and of the old mau. When he d.e-. the -on who kn p the farm, generally tlie t-Idf-t. ivielte the name the only inheritable title in the hind. Ihe other children go off to America nowaday, or perhaps a son build-, a lioiN on o::ie inaccessible ledirc and having first naun-d the farm, receive from it a family name. If he doe-.:f t found n colony he never ba rmy other name." Frightful work for geneatog":.-: .The daughter- sig nify their relationship by putting flatter on the cud of their father's lirl name, a- Johanna Nilstlattcr. Of cour-e. in the costnopolitai: citie-. tlie modern Euiopcan fa-iron has to a great -.tent supplanted the older: but the foregoing dissertation explains the fact that about evert body's name end- iu son or -en. Anglicized. The letter t? neither "o" nor ." but a distinct letter in the Norwegian alpluibrt. 'I h:- also helps evplain the abiiiidaiic:f ai!ie- wlrcii a community !' '.i- In. i-Jn-il ir.habi' antsinat have, -iv.-ordiiig a- the speaker calls the plait: by the nine if the church, of the'promiuenl feature in the landscape, or of the farm which alter his notion L- the mo-L important iu the place. - Cor. Ziwt's Jlcrul'l. In nearly etc.,. lailway statics in London is a -mall bos on legs, pat'iied crimson, which may be culkd an at:-o-matic pust-oftice. It i- d' tided into'wo compartments. On the lop are a--r-turcs admitting :l pennt. one being "or postal cards and the other for enve lopes. You drop a penny through the slot ami open a little drawer beneath, and, presto, you find a posLil card. Drop two pennies in the right ha:d slot, open a corresponding drawer, acd you find a stamped envelope contain ing a dainty sheet of note paper. These little conveniences are the property of a company. , " m A new variety of Russian wheat preduced in Dakota last year a crop ot lorty bushels to thcacre. PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL. Cardinal Newman, of England. U still pi aching, in spite of his eighty one tears and enfeebled health. When Will am H. Vanderbili was a t tiling man he both chewed tobacco ird smoked. He has not used the weed m an, firm for thirtv vears. A. Y. y i. ' - - . Dr. Tanner, the faster, is a resident of Dona Ana County, N. M., where rfe i devoting h?m-elf to the propagation of a new religion, founded on a new Bible, revealea to a new "prophet. St. Louis Globe. Ten thousand black foxes were, killed to furnish the uecessary pieces for Mrs. Bonanza Mackey's seventeen' thousand dollar fur cloak, which is claimed to be liner thau the one that the Duchess of Edinburgh inherited from her mother, the Empress of Russia. The Empress of Austria would cut no mean figure iu a go-as-you-please walking-match. One day re cently she left the Santa Cecilia, Lord Alfred Paget'- steam yacht at Deal, and walked thence to Dover. Ou ar riving at Dover, she went by train to Folkestone, walked back, and then re joined the yacht, having walked no Ies- than eighteen miles during the day. Chicago Tribune. A complimentary dinner was re cently given to Mr. Benjamin Anthorp Could by prominent citizens of Boston including Prof. Agassiz. T. B. AldYieb. Francis Parkman. President Eliot. Profs. Lane. Nortou. Horsford. Loter ing anil Pickering. Robert C. Winthrop, Oliter Wendell Holmes. James Free man Clarke. T. W. Higginson. Lever ett Saltonstall. and others. Mr. Gould has returned home from lifteen years of residence and travel iu South America. Boston Journal. Mrs. George W. Child- is said to have the finest collection of table chiSa in the country. Her dinner-plates in clude Sevres. Worcester. Derby. Dres den. MintonandCopeland-; no two as a rule are alike, and each i- a gem. Manv of her plates have cot several hundred dollars a dozen. She give orders to people of experience to be ou the look out for very rare specimens. It is said that for a dinner of ttrcnty persons Mrs. Childs can. without any ditliculty, set a table the decorat'.ons of which alouc will represent an expenditure of thirtv thousand or fortv thousaud dollars. A. 1". Mail. The London Standard says iu con nection with Mis-, Warner's death: "It is probable that next onlv to 'Uncle Toms Cabin' -The Wide. Wide. World' has had a larger circulation iu Englaud than any book by an Ameri can writer. It hail the advantage of leing the lir-t book for "iris imported a-ros the Atlantic. It has had many successors, some of higher literary powei tnd of greater iutere-1 for in their department, and in the depart ment only of literature. American au-thorcs-es are di-tintily ahead of our own but none of them has obtained anything like the wide popularity which grreted 'The Wide, Wide World. the 'Lamplighter' aud 'Queeehy.' " t "A LITTLE NONSENSE." "Tommy, did you hear your mothf r call you?" "Cour-e I did. "Then, why don't ton go to her at once?" "Well, you -ee. -h's neifous. and itM shook her awful if I -hould go too sud den." I.ouicille f'onrier-Jourii.t.'. Small Gertrude (five years old) "Mamma, I quite agr-e with you." Mamma "Why. nit child, what does agree mean?" S. G. "When two per sons think alike." Mamma " hat does disagrre mean1" S. G. "When one person thinks alike. Life. "An Illiiio-- junk-dealer recently bought a load of sc.raj-iron which con tained a pocket book with one thous and -i hundred dollar- iu it for a oa. .-ays an exchange. If tins is the ea-e he had In-tt- r abandon the scrap-iron business am! adopt toealisin for a profs-ion. .V. )'. Gnihir. At the Police Court: "Aeeu-ed. you an Mind?" "Ye-, tour honor." "How did ton I come blind?" "By a fit of apoplext. "Why. then this picture on tour In east representing an explosion iu a iii'iie. in vhi-h you lost vour -ight?' "Plea..- tour Honor. because to repre-cnt upoplrit puintiug is potverles- It transitu. He write, Last bii;Lt 1 lett my uea.il llh you. A Cip'.r.t tt your w,t:ii.r:v srnce: As you liae noi-tr.at'-. Lir.J ar.J true. Vru, scr.ti tub yo.ir? t& tdLe lU Uce. She au-wered: A If you hae lelt y.r Lruri UiUi I cua't -ay 1 rerl -t. Axitl as for mint well let UTF -er! Call round to-ii.ttit and get ,t. - -lioiton Courit r. "Have another piece f tke."".-:,;d .Tohnut"- mother to a female friend who was taking d ;i:it w"th her. "No. don't you do it." put in Johnny: "it'll make yon sics." "Wlit. Jo'mnv. ain't ton ashamed of tour-elt to talk that wat t 3" Weii. mother, that- what you always tell me when I want another piece, and I bet I can ;et away with four t;n.es as much a- Mr. Green can." - Keuhu-ku S'.ttr .luurual. "Pa. what do people mean when they .-ay ant thing i- a drug in the mar ket?" asked toinig Johnny MeSwilli gen of hi- pa. "The mean, my ron. that the ai tide- are plentiful aud can be bought cheap. "But drugs can't be bought cheap," jHTsNted the "oy. "That's -o." said the father, taping h:s boy on the -houlder. "a wonderful future is before ton. I should not be surprised if you became a new-paper paragraphi-t." " OU City Derrick. "You are doinir nicely." said the doetor encouragin'"l to an old darky patient: "I will call agaiu to-morrow and will leave tou this pre-cr'ption now to save you from pain in the iu terim." Then he went out. "Da's er -eription dat tie doet;th,Ief .' said the" patient feebly to h s tvift,-, "an" I tvan's yo ter go to de drug .-to' an git it filled. Tel! tie drug sto' mnn dat it'.t fo" my interim, an be -ho an ax hjin cf Ise'ter take it eternally, or jess rub it on the outside, an' ef st, t.iia'." X. Y. Ti-.it. A -tudent, undergoing examina tion in the princ'ples of mechanics, wsts asked. "Why will not a pin stand on hi po'nt?" He returned the follow ing auatver: In the lir.-t place a point Is defined by Euclid as that which hath . no parts and uo magnitude, and how can a pin stand on that which hath no parts aud u6 magnitude? In the sec oud plate, a pin will not stand on its , head, much le-s. therefore, will it-stand on its point. Thirdly and lastly, it will . if vou -.tick it in hard ouough. X. Y. Independent. . Five and a half million barrels of citler were made in this "country last fall, it is said. Cider vinegar ought not to be :i rare commodity. PhiladtU zhiu Przss. .r-if -". w n
